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  • Why we don't need to spend ourselves out of a recession: Am I missing something?

    Let's say widgets have been selling like gangbusters and it is a trillion dollar industy. People spend 1 trillion per year on widgets. Let's say 10,000,000 people are employed in the industry. All of a sudden, something happens and no one wants widgets anymore, they decide to save their money...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by William Green on Sat, Dec 12 2009
  • Monetization of Debt

    It's very difficult to find an explicit description of the entire process. I think I understand the story, but I want to run this by you guys to see if you spot any errors: The Process of Monetization of the Debt (1) The US government runs a deficit and borrows money by issuing bonds that must be...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by RockyRaccoon on Thu, May 21 2009
  • Re: Fractional reserve banking

    Here's a story I just wrote to help explain what the Fed's doing to wreck our economy. Please let me know if it helps. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Three Little Pigs and the Federal Reserve Crisis In their later years, they bought a yacht and sailed the seven seas...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by smokedgoldeye on Tue, Feb 24 2009
  • Inflation---->BAD OR GOOD???

    I was having an arguement with this person saying that people have a misconception about inflation because they think that inflation will rob him of his purchasing power of his hard earned money. So that when the prices rises, your dollar will buy fewer goods so it might seem that it lowers living standards...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Unikkatel on Fri, May 2 2008
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